A Welsh journalist’s sensational book claiming Adolf Hitler escaped the bunker to live on in Argentina until the 1960s has been turned into a movie.

A Welsh journalist’s sensational book claiming Adolf Hitler escaped the bunker to live on in Argentina until the 1960s has been turned into a movie.

Grey Wolf – The Escape of Adolf Hitler, is a film by Swansea-born author, director and former TV reporter Gerrard Williams.

The film is based on the shocking claims contained in ex-Sky and BBC News journalist Williams’ book of the same name.

It is currently published in 25 countries.

Williams said: “I have now secured distribution deals for the Grey Wolf docudrama film in The US and Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, France, Turkey, Latin America, South Korea, Scandinavia, Benelux and a number of other territories.”

There is also a possibility the docudrama could be followed by a feature film after development funding came in from a Canadian co-producer and German and Russian film companies.

Marked as “history” by its publisher Sterling, Williams and his co-author – military historian Simon Dunstan – insist the material in Grey Wolf is historically accurate.

Williams said: “With seven years of research, over 27 pages of references and 291 detailed sources, the book presents a compelling version of History that has been hidden for almost 78 years.”

History books assert that with Berlin’s Reich Chancellery virtually surrounded on April 30, 1945, Hitler shot himself to evade capture, while his new wife Eva Braun bit into a cyanide capsule.

Their petrol-soaked bodies were then burned.

But Williams claims Hitler and Braun slipped out of the besieged Führerbunker via a secret tunnel, and were replaced by doubles chosen by Reichsfuhrer Martin Bormann.

He says they were then whisked by plane to Spain and by submarine to the Argentine coast at Necochea. Their “body doubles” were then shot and burned.

He claims Braun and Hitler later had two daughters.

Williams said: “He and Braun separated in 1953, taking the girls to live in the town of Nequen. In the early 2000s the women were still alive.

“Hitler died on February 13, 1962 at 3pm.”

In the docudrama movie, Dante Venesio heads up the Argentine cast portraying Hitler in exile.

Supported by Maria Heller as his wife Eva, Pietro Gianni as Martin Bormann, and Martin Gianola as a chilling SS officer, Grey Wolf claims to be a dramatised testimony of Hitler’s life in Patagonia and his eventual death there.

At his home in Northern France, Williams, who grew up in Coychurch, Bridgend, after leaving Swansea, said, “I cannot think of a better city to premiere ‘Grey Wolf’ than Berlin.

“It’s here the final death throes of the Third Reich took place and was the city Hitler escaped.

“What has amazed me is that despite the complete lack of forensic evidence to either Hitler or Eva’s death, the traditional story has been accepted as true for such a long time.

“Stalin always said Hitler escaped, Eisenhower post-war said there was no evidence of his death and the contemporary reporting from the BBC, Time, and all of the major international news agencies all say the Soviets did not find a body.

“It’s now been confirmed that the skull the Russians have always said was Hitler’s is that of a woman too old to be Eva Braun!

“We also have the statement of the pilot who flew Hitler and his escape party out of Berlin and the evidence of a wounded SS officer who saw their plane land in Denmark.

“That, plus eyewitness statements from Argentina and reports from the files of the FBI make for a completely different history that the one we have been taught.”

He added: “We also have living witnesses to Martin Bormann’s survival in Argentina and masses of documents to corroborate this.”

However, historian Guy Walters, who has studied Nazi Germany extensively and written a series of books about the war, is not convinced by “Grey Wolf”.

He said: “The theory that Hitler survived rubbishes decades of research by historians and intelligence officers.”

Historians hold up Rochus Misch – Hitler’s former radio operator and the last survivor of the Berlin bunker, who claims he saw the bodies of “the boss” and Eva Braun with his own eyes – as a reliable source.

In his book, The Last Witness, he said: “I was in the room next door when he shot himself. I did not hear the shot but I saw his uncovered corpse when the door was opened.

“I saw Hitler slumped with his head on the table.

“I saw Eva Braun sitting dead in the corner of the sofa, her head turned to Hitler, her knees pulled up to her chest.”

Williams and Dunstan are currently writing their second book, The Spider’s Web, which goes into further details of Hitler’s last days, with Williams describing the traditional story of his death as “the biggest lie of the 20th century”.

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